WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:05.240 Coming to you from Iconic Studio a here at proven 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.640 Winners Color Choic Shrubs. It's time for the Gardening Simplified 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.960 Show with Stacy Hervella, me, Rick Weist, and our engineer 4 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.920 and producer Adrianna Robinson. Well Stacy, today, let's talk about 5 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:23.000 rhythm and repetition. They're important landscape design principles that provide 6 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.079 cohesion in a landscape, in other words, kind of a 7 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.600 sense of belonging in a landscape, and they can create 8 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.079 a mood in a landscape. Rhythm is kind of the 9 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:38.320 visual movement or flow that guide your eye through a landscape. 10 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.840 And Stacy, I've learned through the years that people in 11 00:00:41.960 --> 00:00:47.479 general like patterns and similarities. You feel comfortable with them. 12 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:52.759 People love patterns and similarities in things like clothes and 13 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:56.439 home decor. But it always amazes me that when it 14 00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.960 comes to DIY, landscaping and gardening, it's a concept that 15 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:05.879 most people just completely miss out on interpreting. And it's 16 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:12.280 honestly one of the simplest, easiest, most sure fire design 17 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.959 concepts that you can implement in your garden. Let me 18 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.200 tell you this, and I speak from experience, using concepts 19 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.879 of rhythm and repetition of like the same plant repeated 20 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.120 throughout the garden is easy, it saves you money, and 21 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:32.719 it covers a multitude of other design sins. By establishing 22 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:36.920 that structure through repetition and rhythm, you can get away 23 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.920 with so much more beyond that, it makes a huge, 24 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:41.760 huge difference. 25 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:46.439 Yeah. Absolutely, you're basically creating a hierarchy in the landscape, 26 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:51.599 kind of a sequence of spaces, a theme like we 27 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:54.760 talked about a few weeks ago with my landscape near 28 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:00.920 the beach using grasses, various grasses, a re pedd element, 29 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:04.599 so to speak. To do that, and rhythm and repetition 30 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.800 go hand in hand. Rhythm is the repetition of elements 31 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:13.479 to create a sense of movement, flow and unity. Stacey, 32 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:19.400 I've seen that very often. It's poignant in Japanese gardens. 33 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:20.639 That's where I really. 34 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.840 Oh yeah, definitely example. 35 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.800 So similar elements multiple times in a landscape, unity, harmony 36 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.159 and order, and yeah, a lot of times you know 37 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:35.360 we talk about harmony. There's a great correlation between music, 38 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:40.479 creating music, playing music, and the landscape as far as 39 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:46.400 repetition is concerned and dynamics. Now, to celebrate this, I 40 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.439 wrote you a little little a rick about rhyme and repetition. 41 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.240 Of course a limerick better rhyme. So I got that 42 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.439 part covered. But here you go. Repetition it ain't so hard. 43 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.919 Repetition is in my yard one plant, but I have many. 44 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.280 I've spent a pretty penny. Just put it on my 45 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:10.280 credit card. Repetition it ain't so hard. Repetition is in 46 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.639 my yard. One plant, but I have many. I've spent 47 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:16.400 a pretty penny. Just put it on my credit card. 48 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:18.080 See what I did, And it goes on like that. 49 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.800 I like it repetition. But you know, it can be 50 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:25.039 more than plants. It can be stone, it can be 51 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:28.039 various things within the landscape, and I've seen that more 52 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.319 and more with paths and patio stones and patios also, 53 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.919 whereas opposed to just using one type of stone, using 54 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:40.520 various patterns or colors within a patio or a path 55 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.960 and creating a rhythm some sort of repetition really can 56 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:46.159 have a huge impact. 57 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:46.439 Yeah. 58 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.599 I'm glad you mentioned that because I'm actually working on 59 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.800 a very similar situation in my own yard. So we 60 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.120 put in a patio, and the stones or the paver 61 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.319 units that we use there had come from my neighbor 62 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.599 the person who had lived there previously had for some 63 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:01.759 reason with them all around the outside of the house 64 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:05.080 in a line. They graded it properly. They no longer 65 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:06.879 needed them. They were not doing the job that the 66 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.400 original owner had intended to do. So they gave us 67 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.199 hundreds of these patio payers. No, I didn't particularly care 68 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.360 for them, but they were free. Couldn't beat the price, 69 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:17.519 and much like you, I'm not going to turn down 70 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:19.680 a bargain. It was right next door, so it was 71 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.639 easy to move, and so it's not my first choice, but. 72 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:23.480 You know, it works. 73 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:26.800 And now we're going to add another patio and I'm thinking, okay, well, 74 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.240 if I'm shelling out for this, I'm not going to 75 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:31.519 buy the same reddish pink color that I don't really 76 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.759 care for, but I can buy it in a different 77 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:36.600 I can buy the same unit in a different color, 78 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:39.199 and then I can still have that kind of theme 79 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.480 and variation is how it's often would be considered in 80 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:44.399 like classical music, you know, the theme of course for 81 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.360 these paving areas is this you know, eight by thirteen 82 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:51.000 or eight by fourteen unit, but then interpreted in different colors. 83 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:54.959 And it's just a simple way to keep things unified, 84 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:57.480 and again it covers up for all of the craziness 85 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.319 that's going to happen when I surround it with you know, 86 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.759 a double border of baptisia and some homorific high discuss 87 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:03.519 it's true. 88 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.319 And you know the placement of those pavements too, there 89 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.839 can be a form of syncopation to the way you 90 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.879 set those pavers. In other words, if you pick certain colors, 91 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:19.120 the distance between those colors can either quicken or slow 92 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:24.040 one's pace. All of those are important elements within a landscape. 93 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:28.639 And a great composer, of course, understands that many different 94 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:35.480 instruments and people together can create a masterpiece. There's all 95 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:38.720 sorts of different instruments that are used, for example, in 96 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:43.360 a symphony. And if you think of Beethoven, Beethoven's fifth, 97 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:48.439 you know, do duh, well, it's three four time, okay. 98 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.759 And so if you have in your landscape, you could 99 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:59.319 look at it as boxwood boxwood boxwood hydrangea boxwood boxwood 100 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:01.680 boxwood high does that make sense? 101 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:02.319 That makes sense? 102 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:05.199 And you could also look at it as round box wood, 103 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:09.240 round box wood, round box would conical box. And you know, 104 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:14.319 this concept of designing by musical terms is not unfamiliar 105 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.480 to many very talented garden designers. There is a designer 106 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:20.800 named Julie Moore Messervey who famously designed a garden in 107 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.319 Toronto called the Music Garden, which is based on a 108 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.160 Box symphony. And so she or not symphony. I forget 109 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.000 exactly what piece of music it is, but it's based 110 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.920 on a piece by Box and it's you know, the 111 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.399 way she laid out the paths and the beds and everything. 112 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:39.000 Interprets this same musical concept in a physical way in 113 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.560 the garden. So if you're into music, you might want 114 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:43.360 to look up her work and kind of see through 115 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:44.839 her lens how she interprets it. 116 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:49.000 That's fantastic. I love that. Yeah, so it directly ties 117 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.959 into you know, Dobie Gray got it right. Remember Adobie 118 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:56.839 Gray in this song drift Away. I don't thanks for 119 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.079 the joy that you've given me. I want you to 120 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.839 know I believe your song. Oh yeah yeah, rhythm and 121 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:06.040 rhyme and harmony. You helped me along. You're making me strong. 122 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.399 She's one of those guys that like his song is 123 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:09.480 more famous than his name. 124 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:16.240 That's true. But you know I mentioned syncopations. I love 125 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:20.680 syncopation in music, and the way I visualize it as 126 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.480 if your eye is panning across a landscape and you 127 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:27.519 have let's say some lower growing spyrias or whatever, and 128 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.920 then all of a sudden there's a pointed evergreen. 129 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:31.920 That just pops up. 130 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.399 You know, that's syncopation in the landscape, and boy does 131 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.839 that add a lot of interest. And then of course 132 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:44.000 within music you would have a cadenza, and a cadenza 133 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:50.399 is interpreted as an ornamental passage. It's often near the 134 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:56.800 end of a movement and sometimes improvised, but it's generally 135 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.800 some kind of peace or plant or or something within 136 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:04.360 the landscape that just gives all kinds of flourish where 137 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:07.160 the eye. Why, you know, it's a focal point, whether 138 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:10.600 it's a fountain or it's a blue atlas cedar or 139 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:14.160 whatever it may be that that just stands out in 140 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.199 the landscape. And so a focal point, Boy, that would 141 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.000 tie into the whole analogy with music too. 142 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:22.839 Yeah, And you know, that's like kind of what I 143 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.879 was saying earlier about the boxwood boxwood conical boxwood is 144 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:27.800 you know, by doing a little research, which is a 145 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:30.360 great thing to do as we're coming into the colder months, 146 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.080 you can find plants that you can have different shapes 147 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:37.519 like that, you know, especially conifers and evergreens, that you'll 148 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.399 find those shapes and then that there's just enough cohesion 149 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:43.279 with the foliage and the color and all of that 150 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.240 to interpret that, you know, throughout the garden using those 151 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:50.639 various different shapes, and it's very similar. 152 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.159 Yeah, these Italian words that describe music, I don't know 153 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:59.360 if I pronounced them right, like piece of zicado, picata chicado. Yeah, okay, 154 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:04.480 so that's a term that means pinched or plucking of strings, 155 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:09.960 and Chaikowski used that really well, that that plucking. It's 156 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.240 it's kind of in the landscape. It would be using 157 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:17.840 plants that rise and fall in height, and that's fun 158 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.559 within a landscape. And then of course you have forte, 159 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:26.200 which would be loud, yeah, strong, playing loudly and in 160 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.600 a landscape of course, that's dynamic, it's force full and stacey. 161 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.159 Therein lies are color choices like red. Huh. 162 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:37.039 Yeah, I didn't even need to do that, but yes, 163 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.240 I do like red forte. 164 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:41.399 Right, and it's going to stay as opposed to let's say, 165 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.559 using pastel shades. 166 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:45.840 Within a lands you know, and the important thing to 167 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.159 remember about all of this is that it doesn't necessarily 168 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.080 have to be like this the whole season. You can 169 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.519 have the forte for just a short, you know, moment 170 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.039 when that plant whatever it is, is in its full 171 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.120 flower or the fall color or whatever it is. So 172 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:01.320 it's not like it's always beating you over the head. 173 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.799 It's a moment that you can look forward to based 174 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:04.399 on the seasons. 175 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:08.759 Yeah, because you need an intermission. Speaking of intermission, let's 176 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.000 do that now. And coming up next, Stacy's gonna give 177 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:14.799 us plants on trial. That's coming up next here on 178 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:16.519 the Gardening Simplified Show. 179 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.799 Proven Winner's Colored Choice Shrubs cares about your success in 180 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.279 the garden. That's why we trial and test all of 181 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:29.919 our shrubs for eight to ten years, making sure they 182 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.639 outperform everything else on the market. 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Now, of course, on today's topic of rhythm 191 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.759 and repetition, really any of the plants in our line 192 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.320 could work this way, because really it's just a matter 193 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.240 of you taking a plant that you really like and 194 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:07.919 using it typically in multiples of odd numbers is the 195 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.440 most common way to do this, and repeating that theme 196 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:15.039 through the garden in a way that makes visual sense. 197 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:17.919 And really you can do that with any plant. But 198 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.240 one of the plants that I think is particularly suited 199 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.799 to this type of treatment is a plant that got 200 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:29.720 the most feedback I think from the recent garden tour 201 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:37.480 that we did on YouTube, and that is Tater taught arborvide. 202 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.360 Yes, I love Taters, and you know, coming up in 203 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:44.679 segment four, I'm going to talk about the invention of Tater, 204 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:47.720 not the plant, the stuff we actually. 205 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.639 I can't wait, so Tater tot arborvity. If you didn't 206 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.559 see the video of you are interested, you can find 207 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:55.279 that on our YouTube channel, and of course there will 208 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.039 be a link in the show notes at Gardening Simplified 209 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.879 on air dot Com. It's pretty easy to envision this 210 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.039 one if you're not at all familiar with it. It is 211 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:08.759 an evergreen, and it's round, and it's cute like obviously 212 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.200 the name tater Todd is very cute. And it naturally 213 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:17.159 grows just as a tidy little ball of that beautiful 214 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:21.080 arbor idy fan like foliage. And you don't have to 215 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:22.840 lift a finger, You don't have to prune this thing. 216 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.799 It just naturally grows that way. It reaches two to 217 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.559 three feet tall by three to four feet wide, so 218 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.919 as it grows more mature, it will kind of lose 219 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.000 some of its roundness and become a little bit more oval, 220 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:41.399 but it still has that strong, strong structure that lends 221 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:44.679 it really well to using as a theme in variation 222 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.759 in your garden. And best of all, even though you 223 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:51.519 could use any shrub or tree or whatever to do this, 224 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.759 it's an evergreen, so it provides year round coverage so 225 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.080 that you are establishing that structure in your landscape and 226 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.480 it's persisting throughout the year, so you don't lose it. It 227 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.720 doesn't just come and go based on the seasons. 228 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.759 Yeah, if you talk about four or four time in music, 229 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.039 equal beats four beats to a measure, this plant would 230 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.360 fit that role. It looks to me in the landscape 231 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:14.360 like whole notes. 232 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:16.200 Oh you could say that. 233 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.799 And by the way, when we did the garden walk, 234 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.840 at one point I was petting the tater tots because 235 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:24.440 they just look like a cute little puppy. And I 236 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.559 got a lot of eye rolls on that one. 237 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:30.399 So yeah, it was cute. 238 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.960 I don't know, it's an irresistible plant, and that's kind 239 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.159 of you know, it's one of those things, right, And 240 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.240 when you go to the garden center and you see 241 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.360 tater tot arborvity and you're like, I love this thing, 242 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.559 and what do people do? They buy one, they buy two, 243 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:47.720 And if they buy two, you know what they're doing 244 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.919 with them, right, They're putting them on either side of 245 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:53.000 their doorway. Yes, they're matching them in a container. And 246 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.960 all of those are perfectly valid ways to use something 247 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.840 like tater tot arborvidy. But I think that when you 248 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:04.080 aret to you know, imagine this concept of rhythm and repetition, 249 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.679 and you're buying multiple tater tot arborvitis. So let's just 250 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.519 say to establish the theme and repetition, you're going to 251 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:15.240 buy five sets of three, or you know, maybe you 252 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:17.639 can mix that up in different ways, and then you're 253 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:21.360 gonna spread that through your landscape in different areas, and 254 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:24.639 then you know, that's how you establish that Again, once 255 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:27.399 you've established that structure, you can get away with so 256 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:31.600 much more beyond that. Structure is a gardener's best friend. 257 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.159 And I'm telling you this as someone with absolutely zero 258 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.519 self control when it comes to plants. If I like them, 259 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.840 I have to establish strong structure. My garden has does 260 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.679 not have curving lines. My garden has straight lines to 261 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:49.399 impose some formality so that I can go and you know, 262 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.960 be wild with the plants inside of that. So it's 263 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.240 a simple way to bring you know, again that that 264 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:00.879 structure to the landscape. And really I think another good 265 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.240 way to think about them as punctuation marks in the garden. 266 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:06.320 So you said musical notes, and that's also very useful, 267 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.519 But tater taw arbor vity is almost like a period 268 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.240 in the garden. And if you could get a taller 269 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:14.039 arbor idy and mix it up with something like a 270 00:15:14.039 --> 00:15:17.120 north pole arborvidy, which functions almost as an exclamation point 271 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.879 in the garden, and you're mixing and matching these in 272 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:24.840 within the garden, you are basically using these plant horticultural elements. 273 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:26.480 As a musician does notes. 274 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.559 I love that thought as punctuation. Who is that famous 275 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:33.759 musician that used puncture, Victor Borg? 276 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:35.360 Oh yeah, yeah, Victor Borg. 277 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:36.279 Yeah. 278 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.080 I think it was Borsia. Yeah, Boria. Okay, my grandparents 279 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:39.679 used to watch him. 280 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:42.720 Yeah. Oh he's hilarious. Watch him on YouTube. 281 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:48.679 Incredible, that's the only place. Yeah, but we digress. Yes, 282 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:50.519 So there's a lot of. 283 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:53.159 Different rounded globe like arbor dy out of there. And 284 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:57.240 I know how irresistible these dwarf evergreens are to people. 285 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:59.399 They just they just love them. And I don't know 286 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.919 if it's because it kind of is implying to them 287 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.399 that they're not going to have to prune, because people 288 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.759 also do love to prune their stuff and make sure 289 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:10.679 that it's all tidy and neat, and so this kind 290 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:14.039 of gives you that tidy appearance without you ever having 291 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.759 to actually do any pruning yourself. So there's a number 292 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.960 of globe like arbividy out there that you will see 293 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:23.679 probably at your garden center. Very old variety called woodward globe, 294 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:25.519 which I think was probably the standard for years. 295 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:27.840 It was the standard. People liked it, but tended to 296 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.960 get floppy. That's what I like about Tater times Yes, 297 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:32.039 doesn't do that, and. 298 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:32.919 It's much smaller. 299 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.759 So woodward globe got to be every bit of five 300 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:38.120 feet tall and wide as it got to be mature, 301 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.279 which is also a problem because people saw a cute 302 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:43.960 little woodward globe at the garden center and thought, oh, 303 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:46.480 this is great. I'm going to plant this tidy little thing, 304 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:49.320 and then they soon become very large. I'm thinking of 305 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:51.840 some in my neighborhood that were actually planted on either 306 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.519 side of a set of steps, and as they've gotten 307 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.960 too big, they've been pruned. And this is arborvidy in general, 308 00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:00.519 or not plants that you want to have to back 309 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:04.400 because they're going into your walking space. They don't really 310 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:08.279 look so good when you do that. So Tater Tot's 311 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:10.640 much smaller again, two to three feet tall by about 312 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:15.960 three to four feet wide, nice and dense, and it 313 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.079 holds up to snow very well. Now, I would say, 314 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.319 by and large, most rounded arborvits are going to hold 315 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:23.920 up pretty well to snow, especially compared to the conical ones, 316 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:26.720 which sometimes if they get like a very heavy snowload 317 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.759 on a branch or so that can kind of bend 318 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:32.079 them out of shape, and with the increase in ice 319 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.039 storms that many of us have experienced over the past 320 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:36.279 couple of years, obviously that makes it even harder. So 321 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:40.680 it's a good, low maintenance plant that continues to bring 322 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:42.799 structure and beauty to the landscape. Now, one of the 323 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:46.000 comments that we got on the garden tour was whether 324 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.400 we were going to have a tater tot arborvity for 325 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:53.920 USGA Zone nine. Oh and unfortunately not at this point. 326 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.720 Trying to breed heat tolerance into a plant genus or 327 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:00.599 species that doesn't already have it, I don't even know 328 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.480 how that would work. I'll talk to the plant breeders 329 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.240 around here see if they know. I don't even know 330 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:08.960 if it's possible. But this tendency for evergreens to take 331 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:12.720 on a very tidy and rounded shape or just various 332 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.279 shapes whatsoever, does exist across species. So for those people 333 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.640 in USDA Zone nine who can't grow tat Tot, I 334 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:24.519 would suggest a Cryptomeria also known as Japanese red cedar. 335 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.200 There's a variety called Globos and Nana which is going 336 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.599 to grow very similarly. No tater Tot is hardy down 337 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.839 to USDA Zone three heat tolerant through about USDA Zone eight, 338 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:35.880 and we have discovered that it is much more heat 339 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.119 tolerant than we initially thought, so we've heard some great 340 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.960 reports from growers in the South that do very very 341 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:47.039 well with it. Obviously, the hotterer climate, the more shade 342 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.000 the plant is going to want, the more water it's 343 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:51.720 going to need. In both cold and hot climates. I 344 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.680 would recommend a good two to three inch layer of 345 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:58.119 shredded bark mulch over the roots because like many conifers, 346 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.440 the roots tend to be quite shallow, so multiple do 347 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:04.839 a lot towards helping keep those roots cool in the 348 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:07.880 summer warm in the winter, as well as conserving moisture 349 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.720 so that you know, continue to have that nice, healthy 350 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.720 foliage and a nice habit. It is a little bit 351 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:20.039 slow growing, which is a good thing, and most evergreens 352 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:22.119 tend to be a little bit slow growing. There are 353 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.920 some faster growing arborvidis, especially that we're developed for hedging. 354 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.079 This is not going to be one of them. So 355 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:33.359 if you are looking to use tater ta arborviidy as 356 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.200 a main kind of punctuation point throughout your garden, definitely 357 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:39.400 look for larger plants if you don't want to wait 358 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:42.119 for a couple of years for them to start turning 359 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:46.960 into anything. But another way to interpret the rhythm and 360 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:51.039 repetition would be to mix various sizes. And I love 361 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:53.119 this look. It's not something I have personally used, but 362 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:55.400 I love it whenever I see it where someone makes 363 00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:59.079 a new planting and they have like, you know, a 364 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:01.200 three gallon of five in a one gallon, so that 365 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:03.480 they're kind of at different stages and so you're still 366 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:08.079 establishing that, you know, theme in variation, but without it 367 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:10.279 being so you know, matchy matchy. 368 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:13.839 Yeah, exactly, And that I like your approach on the 369 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.640 punctuation thing. I mean, not everybody's into music composition and 370 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:20.960 that sort of thing, or classical music, so looking at 371 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.200 it as punctuation pretty neat those tater dots can be 372 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:28.920 the periods. Yeah, sorry, And you know, like the fine 373 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:33.640 line buckthorn right. Yeah, I think it's a great concept. 374 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.400 So it is pretty pest resistant. But of course, since 375 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.720 it is an arborvidy, I regret to inform you it 376 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.480 is not dear resistant. So you will see no tater 377 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.400 dot arborvid in my garden or rix garden or at 378 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:49.119 least outside of his compound. But if you don't have deer, 379 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.160 this is a great plant to try and start experimenting 380 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.960 with these concepts of repetition and rhythm theme in variation 381 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:59.039 in your garden and just see what it does. You 382 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.559 will be amazed at the difference it makes. And it's 383 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:04.880 so simple. You don't have to know all of the plants, 384 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:06.680 you don't have to know all of the secrets. It's 385 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.640 just an easy way to do. 386 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:10.240 What the pros do. 387 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.799 Sure, really, so we're gonna take a little break. When 388 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:14.440 we come back, we're opening up the garden mail legs, 389 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:23.559 so please stay tuned at proven winner's color choice, We've 390 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:26.880 got a shrub for every taste and every space. Whether 391 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.319 you're looking for an easy care rose and unforgettable hydrangea, 392 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:32.960 or something new and unique, you can be confident that 393 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:35.279 the shrubs and the white containers have been trialed and 394 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:38.160 tested for your success. Look for them at your local 395 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:43.119 garden center. Greetings, gardening friends, and welcome back to the 396 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:45.720 Gardening Simplified Show. Well, we were on that quick break, 397 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:49.559 Adriana contributed an interesting idea that I wanted to share 398 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.319 with everyone, and so she was saying, like, what if 399 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.720 you took tater tots and planted one kind of in 400 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:58.839 the background, one kind of in the mid ground, and 401 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:02.079